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'Spy Murder Plot Alleged: Gang of 20 Caught, Says Forde' newspaper clipping March 1942

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[Press Extracts Australia First Re Internees, A375/NN 65667, page 10 of 31]
(CC BY 3.0 AU) (The Sun, March 1942)

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Liverpool Internment Camp during World War II

The Liverpool Internment Camp at Moorebank commenced on 15 October 1939 under the direct control of the Australian Army Base at Victoria Barracks, Sydney. When larger camps were built at Orange and Hay in 1940 the camp was closed, however, after eight months it was re-opened for internees in transit to other states and as a holding camp for 'special internees' including members of the Australia First Movement.

Political crimes and offenses

World War II

Australia First Movement

Australian nationalist movement which was anti-British, anti-communist and anti-semitic, eventually advocating an alliance with the Axis powers thereby leading to suppression of its members in 1942.

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